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America can do better. America deserves better.

The country deserves an independent presidential candidate who is better for America. Our mission is to get a credible candidate on the ballot, presenting the nation with a third party option who changes the historically bad choice we’re facing this fall. We need to unite around a candidate who will bring us together and lead this already great nation into the future.

Americans still believe that our country is capable of greatness and that our children deserve leaders they can look up to. They deserve a president who represents the dynamism, diversity, and deeply held virtues of the United States.

This election is a unique American moment. The electorate has shown historic levels of dissatisfaction with the two major party nominees. According to a recent poll, the majority of American voters (including 90% of millennials) want to see an independent candidate run. Nearly two-thirdsof Americans said they are willing to support an independent candidate.

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Here is a question I asked Jeff Pearlman and Amy Moreno based on her blog post explaining why she supports Donald Trump, which you can read below. In my question I basically imply that she never gave a tangible reason why she supports him!

Jeff, please ask Amy to answer this ONE question. I have seen Donald Trump speak in person during the primary. Why should I vote for him? I did not vote for Obama. He did not give me one reason to. Trump said NOTHING during the speech I heard to answer that question. He said two things: he would win, we had to unite the party…and, wait for it, he would win even if we did not unite. So his last words were essentially that he didn’t need my vote. Now, I paid a lot of money to see him speak in person. And that is all he said.
What perceived reality do you (Amy) have that explains why I should vote for him? Perhaps Obama wasn’t qualified. Perhaps Bush wasn’t qualified. Personally, I would never assume that Trump’s resume qualifies him for POTUS. If that is enough for Amy, so be it.

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I have been thinking much about the rise of Donald Trump of late, but I’m tired of obsessing, worrying, fretting. So I just want to say something, and then I’ll try and (editorially) move on for a while. It won’t be easy, but—again—I’ll try. Because this isn’t healthy.

We’ve had a lot of stories over the last month or so here at RedState about the Libertarian Party, which should tell you all you really need to know about the humongous opportunity the Libertarian Party has this year to increase their size and influence. We’ve had articles about Gary Johnson and Austin Petersen, but…

It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. Patrick Henry

Are we a nation so far gone that we have no more respect or room for our more virtuous nature? Is God, country, and family a passé notion? For years, I have championed the cause of conservatism, based on not just sound policy, but on the | Read More »

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This is not for Trump supporters or anyone who isn’t able to read more than a paragraph or comprehend polysyllabic material.

Tomorrow night, if things go the way conservatives hope and forecasters predict, Republicans will retake the Senate. Already the process stories have started, claiming that this is essentially “the Seinfeld Election,” an election about nothing. Supposedly, Republicans are winning simply by being against Barack Obama’s bad policies, instead of actually being for good policies.#ad#With constructive optimists like Joni Ernst and Cory Gardner running in my neighboring states of Iowa and Colorado, I completely disagree, but it’s important for Republicans to understand where the narrative is going next. Starting Wednesday, the cry from Democrats and the media will be that Republicans do not have a real governing agenda, that all we care about is shutting down the government, and that the supposed “GOP civil war” is back and worse than ever. Even though there will often be little data to support this handwringing analysis, the media will frame the new majority as a dysfunctional caucus with two warring factions: “Team Small Ball” vs. “Team Shutdown.”I categorically reject these categories. But there is only one way for Republicans to combat this obsession with intra-Republican debate: Go big.The media’s portrait of an agenda-less GOP rings true to many because it was true for too long: In each election, Americans had to choose between Democrats with Big Government bad ideas, and Republicans with seemingly no ideas at all and no passion for tackling the nation’s biggest problems. Heading into 2016, we cannot beat something with nothing. We have to get good at explaining what we are for.If there is one lesson of this election, it’s that the American people are desperate for real leadership. For six years, we have watched our federal government try to do more things than ever before, inserting itself into every sector of life but not really doing anything very well.The signers of the Declaration of Independence did not pledge their fortunes and sacred honor so the federal government could play “helicopter parent” to a free people. They saw government as our shared project to secure liberty, doing a few big things and doing them well. We need to get back to that.The first step is explaining to Americans that we must get our house in order. That we must take a hard look at what our government is doing in D.C. and ask tough questions. We have to state more clearly that fixing the broken parts of government is not the same as opposing government in and of itself.If elected, I want to take part in a vigorous reaffirmation of the basic American ideal of a limited government with enumerated powers. But inside that limited set of governmental duties, we should actually get the big things done. We must energetically tackle the significant problems the voters rightly want Washington to be addressing.To do that, we need a bold agenda that is easy to understand and tackles head-on the crises we face. Republicans must sell a big-cause, problem-solving vision — low-ego and happy-warrior in tone.In policy arena after policy arena, Democrats respond to every failure of clunky government by proposing the addition of still more layers to 1960s-era bureaucracies as they break down. Republicans should invite them instead into a conversation about actually modernizing government, by fundamentally overhauling outdated federal programs to become nimble enough for the age of Uber and of lifelong job retraining.I recognize that President Obama is likely to veto much of what we propose. Let him. If we aren’t at least laying out a vision of what we’re for, then many voters in the 2016 presidential election are ‎going to remain skeptical that Republicans are serious about actually tackling the biggest national policy problems before us. Here are nine bold ideas we need to get behind:1. Entitlement reform that ties the retirement age to our growing life expectancy, and that means-tests our insolvent safety-net programs instead of letting them mushroom further.2. Health reform that affirms a societal (not governmental) goal ‎of universal catastrophic health insurance by addressing the government roadblocks that make it difficult for families to choose from a broad, private-sector menu of health-insurance policies that they can keep even when changing jobs or states.3. Welfare reform that eliminates the marriage penalty and “dependency lock,” tackling today’s overlapping programs that absurdly disincentivize both healthy family structures and the move from welfare to work, which should be the fundamental goal of these programs.4. Education reform that champions more choices for parents and for those needing job retraining, making clear that our policies put students rather than incumbent institutions first.5. Tax reform that spends far less rhetorical energy on the marginal tax rate of the top 1 percent and instead begins with a goal of maximum economic growth and more opportunities for the poor and the middle class.6. Regulatory reform that doesn

There is just no stopping the Republican primary voters choice to be the GOP’s “presumptive nominee.” Donald Trump, who systematically eliminated all sixteen the most talented field of Republican presidential candidates ever seen, and who claims he can be presidential and also says he is a unifier, just wont quit. Like that stupid bunny in…